On Monday around 3:25pm and the power had just come back on. I was sitting in bed, watching a movie on my computer, and surfing the internet killing time before work when all of a sudden the light went off. For about ten minutes I was sitting in the dark, watching my movie (The Jane Austen Book Club if you're curious) and continuing to wander around the internet. About 30 minutes later, the power went out again for a few minutes. This, bizarrely enough, has become normal to me. At least it was the middle of the afternoon so I have the sunlight to see my way around the apartment.
At least once or twice a week this happens at work as well. Only at work when the electricity goes at work it is 1:00am so the only light is from my computer, not the sunlight. Three other people in the office have laptops (one of which the battery is so old it doesn't hold a charge), so the office is really dark. I've got my computer so I can do some work but when the power goes, obviously so does the wireless so the primary communication with US is cut. All forty of us in the office just sit at our desks while someone goes outside to start the generator. The generator is so loud that I can barely carry on a conversation with Santosh who is sitting three feet from me. Thankfully the power outages at night do not last for more than 10 or 20 minutes, so normal work can resume.
I don't know what is going to happen when it really gets hot here if the power is going out when it's relatively cool out. Hopefully the warmer weather won't bring more overheating and more power outages. I just hope I'm not here during the rainy season, because that is the worst. Sometimes the internet is down all "day".
At least once or twice a week this happens at work as well. Only at work when the electricity goes at work it is 1:00am so the only light is from my computer, not the sunlight. Three other people in the office have laptops (one of which the battery is so old it doesn't hold a charge), so the office is really dark. I've got my computer so I can do some work but when the power goes, obviously so does the wireless so the primary communication with US is cut. All forty of us in the office just sit at our desks while someone goes outside to start the generator. The generator is so loud that I can barely carry on a conversation with Santosh who is sitting three feet from me. Thankfully the power outages at night do not last for more than 10 or 20 minutes, so normal work can resume.
I don't know what is going to happen when it really gets hot here if the power is going out when it's relatively cool out. Hopefully the warmer weather won't bring more overheating and more power outages. I just hope I'm not here during the rainy season, because that is the worst. Sometimes the internet is down all "day".
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